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 GK blitz V1.08 : too many connection reset - is it my ADSL/ISP or an endemic servers plague ???(1) I have read GK's warning about lost connection in Blitz games and (2) I have scanned all the pages on this forum. AFAIK, this specific issue has not not been raised, documented, investigated ... and certainly not solved (I have more related issues in my pipe-line) Note 2 : "à toutes fins utiles", I am on Ubuntu with Opera. Very reliable (98%+, with FFx and Opera or other browsers). I sporadically play Blitz @ GK and I am very (t!o!o!o!! ) often upset by lost connection problems [ dozens of games aborted in a 6-10 hours span ]: (1) many times I can see a lost ADSL connection on my modem , but (2) many times also the modem looks OK and still the "connection reset" panel is displayed and (3) most of the times, the game is killed and cannot be resumed. This is very awkward ( for me - and for my opponent too, I suppose - since the game result is spoiled ). So, before raising hell at my ISP (although my ADSL/phone context is very peculiar) I wish to get some feedback from the Blitz players : I saw several threads on this forum about GK blitz and I count some of you have a say on this situation (specially, €'pean players blitz'ing in the time frame GMT+1 , 18:00 - 05:00). 1) I am @ GMT+1 : my impression is that the problem is much more acute from 21:00 to 01:00. It could be (1) TV on ADSL (silly sports - soccer, TV shows, etc ... killing the bandwidth) or it can be (2) the load increase with USA and other western time zones. How about you ? 1.1) Do you lose connection on so many games ? 1.2) In the same time spans ? 1.3) Any result by shaking the ISP/ADSL provider ? 2) Some of you seem to have privileged knowledge of and relationship with GK. Can you answer these ? 2.1) Is blitz (although much improved since a year or two) less important for GK ? 2.2) Is it "their own code" - can they improve it if they get good feedback ? GK says no Java, no Flash required for Blitz ... but for the Chess engine (Play with computer) they say it is pure Java - runs on the client computer. Puzzles me (I gather documentation on some fishy blitzy situations : loss by timeout when my clock still has 10"+ on my side). 3) What did I miss in this problem sphere ? Thanks for the feedback, if any (I saw dead questions in the forum - no interest). Zoltan. |
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Feedback to my own post !!! User BENICE tells me he has the same ? Just TWO of us on an average of 200 - 300Max ? Is it time to switch back to "www.freechess.org" for free BLITZ ?? GK's GUI is smooth but their servers are not up to par ? Do not tell me they use non-LINUX servers : THAT would explain a lot ! Tomorrow or next time, I will count the "LOST CONNECTIONS" !!! |
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abbose 17-Feb-12, 09:18 |
Yes you are right |
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baronderkilt 17-Feb-12, 15:13 |
Around the time You probably know much more about computers and connections than I do. But I am thinking the problem is probably not GK specifically. Or why would it have a time frame? It would seem it should be as likely at any time. Unless it were overcrowding of the server. I was having some D/C's here in the last month, but mine too were all grouped together in bunches, and now have been gone completely for several weeks. And I have never noticed it bearing any relationship to the number of players using the blitz area. Have you? If not, I think we can rule out server overload at GK? I believe, but not certain that blitz is served seperately than the main site. So I am going by the number of games being played in blitz area when I say that. Rather than total players using the whole GK site. It is Definately a seperate domain. Being "ichess", not gameknot com or chesscolony com. Have you Always had the problem, or it is recent only? I do believe Opera is one of the browsers GK stays very uptodate with. But Ive not tried using it here this year, since not having it on my new laptop. I know they do keep up with FF and IE quite well. And I believe Safari. I used to have troubles with my Turn Based Chess boards here when trying to go thru AOL as proxy, or use their IE based AOL broswer. |
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baronderkilt 17-Feb-12, 18:09 |
For the last ten minutes ... |
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Feedback ! Thanks .. As stated by GK a few times , there are many servers and other contention points between a Blitz player and the GK server. Good luck |
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baronderkilt 18-Feb-12, 05:04 |
Your welcome ... I just downloaded Safari (for PC , not MAC) today and am going to try it out on GK and ichess blitz here. See how that goes. The trouble I had today evolved to not even being able to get onto the whole gameknot site using my IE or IE8/64, including the GK Front Page I was using as the Home Page on one. When I have been here tho, blitz had no D/C's by me nor opponents. So that part has been tops. So far the Safari is working slick on every site. Besides GK, the IE was refusing to load another site also. And I am sure it not going to be about GK lagging in keeping up with any IE changes, for truly I've never seen a Chess site that handles such as quickly, as well, or with less downtime than here. And while I'm no computer genius, I HAVE used about every Chess site that FREE blitzes, and the big names that are pay for play. Will also try Safari out on my Java + Jin blitz site from France, which is an extremely nice interface, imo the best on the Net for fast accurate blitzing, and has ELO used, unlike some that are Glicko rating (which personally I consider an absurd rating system and quite inferior to Elo, which can be 'tuned' to the nth degree for any corrections to the overall rating pool ... well enough on that tangent tho...) . Anyway, that site was having problems tho with FF and Chrome use. Which I've never experienced here. Personally I feel this blitz interface is the second best I have ever used. And is planned to someday be upgraded again to at least add rating there. But only the other one I mentioned, from France, is slicker. But also costs me $52 (U.S.D) a year to blitz there. BTW, I agree with you that Opera has some very nice aspects, that I enjoyed using a lot, last year from my desktop P4D2. I may go look for it yet. Cheers Chessfriend |
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baronderkilt 18-Feb-12, 05:07 |
Deleted by baronderkilt on 18-Feb-12, 05:10.
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baronderkilt 18-Feb-12, 05:10 |
oh btw . . . Also, I know Benice from playing many times. A very good, competetive and sporting player. I always enjoy those games, win or lose. I only just noticed your thread here when abbose brought it up. Maybe I was having a "Day After Birthday hangover when you created it !? Somehow i missed it then. Im off now, to try out this Safari there ... |
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baronderkilt 18-Feb-12, 05:47 |
UPDATE ... ...for GK blitz. No disconnects, nor loss of seconds, nor delays. It was very nice. Except for that " ... Ne3!" outpost, but my opponent did that to me, or you might say that I did it to me. lol. (Depending how one looks at such things ) |
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As opposed to Agatha Christie's "10 little indians", here there was none, I do not know when I will be blitzing again ... not soon. But thanks for the experiments and feedback - I had more or less given up on this problem when GK directly gave me the answer I wrote above : " There are many potential points of failure on the 'line' between a player and GK servers and on many of these we have no means of intervention and control". OK, but ... I still know there was some pattern(s) in 2011AUG and I was trying to identify it(them). Good games to you .. |
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